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Scripted by Virginia Kellogg and Bernard Schoenfeld, Caged has a tendency to spell out all emotions-especially sentiment-in large, block capital letters. But John Cromwell's direction has some unblinkingly realistic moments, and Caged ends on a stringent and unexpected note: paroled at last, Eleanor joins up with a vice ring and the hard-bitten warden gloomily reserves a cell for her early return...
...announce a reprieve. He was postponing the hearings on his bill before his own Interstate Commerce Committee. His visitors, he said, had assured him of their "grave concern" over the commercial exploitation of movie performers' immorality, and they planned to put a stop to it with a "stringent amendment" to their advertising code. Big Ed was willing "to permit this to be done voluntarily and effectively...
Even if the ships should become suddenly available, the Coast Guard has been progressively more stringent in granting certain occupational waivers. Without these papers, the vessels cannot leave American ports...
...ordinary and usual characteristics of a political party," "substantially dominated and controlled," and "operates primarily to advance, the objectives of." It is unfortunate that the wording is so loose, because the groups included in the definition are subject to severe restrictions. There is a correspondingly vague, though less stringent, definition of a "Communist-front organization...
...qualifications for becoming a cooperative resident have always been stringent. First, there must be a financial need, and second, sufficient scholastic ability to carry the extra work...